The comfort of crows : a backyard year
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Playaway
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1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English

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Release date supplied by publisher.
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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Previously released by Spiegel & Grau by OrangeSky Audio.
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Read by Margaret Renkl.
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In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring, what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the authorand from us. For, as Renkl writes, "radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world." With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.
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Adult.
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OVERLAY REPORT: 2024-12-11

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Renkl, M. (2024). The comfort of crows: a backyard year . Playaway Products, LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Renkl, Margaret. 2024. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Solon, Ohio: Playaway Products, LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Renkl, Margaret. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Solon, Ohio: Playaway Products, LLC, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Renkl, M. (2024). The comfort of crows: a backyard year. Solon, Ohio: Playaway Products, LLC.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Renkl, Margaret. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Playaway Products, LLC, 2024.

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